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years of obama. is that what's going to happen tonight in. >> we know this and everybody on your panel, they're all smart guy, they all know that every presidential contest is a contest for the future. and what president obama is saying is everything's fine, we should continue on the same course. governor romney happens to very clearly disagree with that. and the message that he has for these voters is that we can and will take a new course under romney and that new course will have more economic growth. >> this is an assembled intellect of awesome proportions, probably nor since thomas jefferson dined alone. >> i feel like i'm bringing down the batting average on this team. >> you never do. let me ask you this. i was very surprised yesterday to learn that mitt romney was talking about tax policy to a local denver, colorado station where he essentially unveiled a new program with more details. he said his 20% tax cut would only allow $17,000 worth of deductions. if you have $17,000 bucket of deductio
years of obama. is that what's going to happen tonight in. >> we know this and everybody on your panel, they're all smart guy, they all know that every presidential contest is a contest for the future. and what president obama is saying is everything's fine, we should continue on the same course. governor romney happens to very clearly disagree with that. and the message that he has for these voters is that we can and will take a new course under romney and that new course will have more...
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barack obama got his four-year wish list. he got that 7 in front of the unemployment rate number, which he's wanted for a long time. i'll say what i say in our editorial tomorrow. the labor market still stinks, larry. this is a lousy labor market. we still have 14.6% people who are unemployed when you include the people who can't find a full-time job, when you include all those people who dropped out of the labor force, that's 23 million people. i wanted to emphasize one thing with your conversation with jack welch. jack was right about one thing. there are only 10,000 added in terms of government jobs in the new report but all of the additional -- the revised upward jobs numbers for the last two months -- >> larry, larry -- >> every one of those jobs was a government job. >> no, there was some private jobs revised upward. >> igor, it sounds like i'm defending you. >> i appreciate it. >> i'm just trying to play by the numbers. i call it as i see it. here's a political point. it turns on the intrade, obama's numbers went right
barack obama got his four-year wish list. he got that 7 in front of the unemployment rate number, which he's wanted for a long time. i'll say what i say in our editorial tomorrow. the labor market still stinks, larry. this is a lousy labor market. we still have 14.6% people who are unemployed when you include the people who can't find a full-time job, when you include all those people who dropped out of the labor force, that's 23 million people. i wanted to emphasize one thing with your...
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obama's been repeating millionaire, billionaires. there's nor millionaires. negotiate from spots of equal strength. the market will be disappointed if this is dead. i expect it to loses about another four handles on the actual announcement. >> very interesting to me. this is the least worst tax bill we've seen. okay? >> no doubt. >> in fact, it includes, as we learned earlier, cap gains tax, so important to stocks. 15% to 20%. the dividend tax also important to stocks, 15% to 20% rather than 44%. those elements of the bill, very pro--growth and pro-stock market compared to other punitive things. if that all goes away jim, do you think just a small sell-off or will chaos assume and people are worried they won't get it done and we will jump into the fiscal cliff? >> if plan b is dead, we get somewhat of a sell-off now. 10 to 15 handles. not a big deal. someone will say something to placate the market and make us believe everything will be fine and we'll ficker things out. in our business we always say, there's a buy the rumor, sell the
obama's been repeating millionaire, billionaires. there's nor millionaires. negotiate from spots of equal strength. the market will be disappointed if this is dead. i expect it to loses about another four handles on the actual announcement. >> very interesting to me. this is the least worst tax bill we've seen. okay? >> no doubt. >> in fact, it includes, as we learned earlier, cap gains tax, so important to stocks. 15% to 20%. the dividend tax also important to stocks, 15% to...
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now, that is obama's job, not ten years ago in massachusetts. this is the part i just don't get. maybe my panel can help me. we have former clinton white house aid keith boykin, wabc talk show host march simone, and conservative attorney and blog founder john hinderracker. thank you very much. it's great to have you back while i'm here. what is -- what is this all about? you know, the idea, romney comes out with a 4.7% unemployment rate, a balanced budget, no tax hikes, obama should be so lucky to even remotely have a 4.7% unemployment rate. i don't understand his policies because this country's not doing well and he won't face up to it. what is this all about? >> exactly right, larry. obama can't even dream about a 4.7% unemployment rate. what's going on here, larry, is the fundamental problem is that obama can't talk about his own record. and that's why we see all these attacks on mitt romney, whether it's his time at bain, his term as governor of massachusetts, putting the dog on the roof of the car, you know -- obama can talk about anything other than his own record. that's w
now, that is obama's job, not ten years ago in massachusetts. this is the part i just don't get. maybe my panel can help me. we have former clinton white house aid keith boykin, wabc talk show host march simone, and conservative attorney and blog founder john hinderracker. thank you very much. it's great to have you back while i'm here. what is -- what is this all about? you know, the idea, romney comes out with a 4.7% unemployment rate, a balanced budget, no tax hikes, obama should be so lucky...
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obama wants -- if i get this right -- a $1.6 trillion tax increase over the next ten years. $1.6 trillion. that's twice as much as the negotiated deal a year ago with john boehner. you think that's pro-growth? how does that stack up? >> look, i think unfortunately the president has taken this election as a mandate to go further down the road we're on. in four years, we've seen higher and higher spending, debt, taxes and regulations. and it hadn't worked. 23 million people are out of a job. and there is a proven path to turning this country around. over and over again, if you want growth, it's not complicated. >> all right. >> you reduce spending taxes, regulation and you have a sound dollar. >> ooh, i love that, especially that sound dollar part. music to my ears. thank you, sir. let me move on, though. the big "new yorker" magazine story basically about you, and it talks about how immigrants, demographic changes, immigrants are turning red states into blue states. and they're suggesting that texas may go from a blue state to a red state. now, whether or not that is the case, what i want
obama wants -- if i get this right -- a $1.6 trillion tax increase over the next ten years. $1.6 trillion. that's twice as much as the negotiated deal a year ago with john boehner. you think that's pro-growth? how does that stack up? >> look, i think unfortunately the president has taken this election as a mandate to go further down the road we're on. in four years, we've seen higher and higher spending, debt, taxes and regulations. and it hadn't worked. 23 million people are out of a...
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he's a failure, the family income has gone down $4,000 in 3 1/2 years under obama compared to $2,000 under george w. in eight years. >> because of that family income, that's not a made up number, that's a government number. i think both of these guys should be looking for permanent middle class tax cuts. permanent middle class tax cuts so that take-home pay will go up. i'll give you the last word. >> i found myself strangely agreeing with your plan to cut the middle class and take away the deductions and keep tax rates for people who make a lot of money like you and i fairly high. i think that makes abundant good sense. but we're forgetting one thing. the biggest challenge may be even more than anything is our debt and our deficit. and i think with governor romney and paul ryan figured out was they can't give $5 trillion worth of tax cuts and still eat into the deficit, which i think is our biggest national problem. >> i think -- >> you're right. he might be able to do it. he might be able to do it if they did your plan. >> i'm telling you. you know, you were a good tax break governo
he's a failure, the family income has gone down $4,000 in 3 1/2 years under obama compared to $2,000 under george w. in eight years. >> because of that family income, that's not a made up number, that's a government number. i think both of these guys should be looking for permanent middle class tax cuts. permanent middle class tax cuts so that take-home pay will go up. i'll give you the last word. >> i found myself strangely agreeing with your plan to cut the middle class and take...
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obama took a page out of a 65-year-old memo written by clark clifford for truman in 1948 in which truman's political guru said run against congress. do executive orders that transcend congress. that's what obama is doing now. the latest example of which is his getting a pass onto the states on welfare reform. >> hang on. we'll get to that in a second with steve moore. let me follow up on a key point. the economy, every poll shows and i know you are right about clifford and truman and appealing to specific left-wing democratic interest groups. i know you're right. my point is more generic. all the polls show the economy is issue number one. and similarly, all of the polls show that obama is badly behind on those polls on the economy. he doesn't have the horse sense, and i think this is why bill clinton called him an amateur in your book. obama doesn't have the horse sense e to understand that growth, growth, growth is the issue in this campaign. this is not 1948. >> but i don't think he's got that as his number one priority now. it's almost too late for him to turn around the economy in tim
obama took a page out of a 65-year-old memo written by clark clifford for truman in 1948 in which truman's political guru said run against congress. do executive orders that transcend congress. that's what obama is doing now. the latest example of which is his getting a pass onto the states on welfare reform. >> hang on. we'll get to that in a second with steve moore. let me follow up on a key point. the economy, every poll shows and i know you are right about clifford and truman and...
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for republicans to attack obama for doing what presidents do in re-election years is silliness. campaigning is what they do. why is this a shocker? it is a complete distraction for the gop. it puts them off message. the issue should be the stall speed economy, tax cuts, obama care, free enterprise. of course, obama is campaigning. in fact, george bush campaigned more. the whole thing is a red herring and the gop is being goofy. >>> and if you want proof of the stalled economy that republicans should be talking about, gdp came in worse than expected. 2.2%. 3% last quarter. this only solidifies it's the worst recovery since world war ii. stocks had a good week because profits matter more than gdp. dow ended up. nasdaq up 2% for the week. was fine. s&p 500 above 1400 the first time since april 3rd. later, team obama out, questions whether mitt romney has the chops to kill osama bin laden. it is a romney slur, impugning his patriotism. question is whether team obama spent millions in carpet bombing romney on that and other ads like it. my guest, former mississippi governor, haley ba
for republicans to attack obama for doing what presidents do in re-election years is silliness. campaigning is what they do. why is this a shocker? it is a complete distraction for the gop. it puts them off message. the issue should be the stall speed economy, tax cuts, obama care, free enterprise. of course, obama is campaigning. in fact, george bush campaigned more. the whole thing is a red herring and the gop is being goofy. >>> and if you want proof of the stalled economy that...
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you've got obama care regulations and mandates coming next year. i think business is responding to some improvement in the economy. but i think business is still holding back. and if business holds back, we're not going anyplace. >> larry, the reason i don't think that's true is that almost all of the spending in the economy, the real driver of the economy the last three months has been businesses rebuilding inventories. it hasn't been consumer spending. so businesses are not holding back. businesses are not going to continue to rebuild inventories unless and until consumers show some action. >> jimmy, can i just ask you? i want to round out the coverage of this thing. manufacturing remains pretty darn strong. and manufacturing hours worked have gone up substantially. that's one point. second point, jimmy, to react. household employment survey, which is the small business, family-owned business survey. that thing is booming. that's up close to 500,000 monthly jobs per month in each of the last three months. 500,000. that is really sort of double th
you've got obama care regulations and mandates coming next year. i think business is responding to some improvement in the economy. but i think business is still holding back. and if business holds back, we're not going anyplace. >> larry, the reason i don't think that's true is that almost all of the spending in the economy, the real driver of the economy the last three months has been businesses rebuilding inventories. it hasn't been consumer spending. so businesses are not holding...
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we see throughout the rest of this year, larry, as the obama administration has clearly decided that that auto bailout is something that they want to run on in the fall. >> all right. eamon javers, thank you very much for the movie premiere. next time i want some popcorn, real criticism, maybe an oscar performance. let's bring in our guests who will go do the criticism. we bring back keith boykin, clinton white house aide. jennifer ruben, the author of "the washington post" blog and my pal mark simone, radio talk show host. mark simone, i don't know if it was a bailout of detroit. bailing out unions? what's so good about that? >> you could go with the romney organized bankruptcy. that might have been a good way to go. but as far as this movie, let me put this very politely. it was shovel ready, if you know what i mean. >> shovel ready! >> it's unfair to call it propaganda because propaganda is disguised as a real movie. this didn't even try to look objective. this was just an out-and-out infomercial. it was ridiculous. >> keith boykin, i didn't hear in the movie -- i acknowledge all
we see throughout the rest of this year, larry, as the obama administration has clearly decided that that auto bailout is something that they want to run on in the fall. >> all right. eamon javers, thank you very much for the movie premiere. next time i want some popcorn, real criticism, maybe an oscar performance. let's bring in our guests who will go do the criticism. we bring back keith boykin, clinton white house aide. jennifer ruben, the author of "the washington post" blog...
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shilling for obama's bailout? or maybe it was just a larger statement that america is coming back in a kind of clint eastwood, rugged, conservative, cowboy, patriotic way? in a moment, we're going to debate the actual bailout with our dynamic duo robert reich and steve moore. but first i want to figure out what eastwood is telling us and how that figures into whether obama deserves a second term. we have david corn, washington bureau chief of "mother jones" magazine and romney supporter jim talent, a former republican senator from missouri. hello, gentlemen. david corn, some people are trying to make the case that eastwood was shilling for the obama bailouts. eastwood himself says not. he told fox news it was meant to be a message about job growth and the spirit of america. that's all. he's always been against bailouts. he's always been in favor of free market capitalism. why is the left making such a big deal about this tonight? >> larry, you're doing it. it's a lead item on your show. i don't think the -- i don'
shilling for obama's bailout? or maybe it was just a larger statement that america is coming back in a kind of clint eastwood, rugged, conservative, cowboy, patriotic way? in a moment, we're going to debate the actual bailout with our dynamic duo robert reich and steve moore. but first i want to figure out what eastwood is telling us and how that figures into whether obama deserves a second term. we have david corn, washington bureau chief of "mother jones" magazine and romney...